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And with the left blinker left on for miles and miles?

Interesting. I somehow thought it was going to turn out the_traveler was involved (e.g., that the penthouse suite was included only on the #12 and #13 trains).

While that seems odd, it merely reflects that, for many years, New York had two, then three, subway systems: first the IRT and BMT, then later the IND, which was compatible with the BMT. (PATH is a wholly separate critter.) Other subway systems in the world may have similar issues, however, with...

What do those Swedes wear under their skirts? Swedish train driver Martin Akersten poses wearing a skirt in this May 31 2013 photo taken in Stockholm with his cell phone. Akersten says he and more than a dozen other drivers and conductors at the Roslagsbanan line in the Swedish capital have...

Maybe they can arrange a double saw-by. If they do, I'm sure the_traveler will be there. :D

My point about EIS's is not that they're good or bad per se, but rather that they are one part of a long bureaucratic process that takes years, sometimes decades, to complete--if it's ever completed at all. If someone seriously floated a proposal today to build a new HSR somewhere in the U.S...

Google Thinks That In 100 Years, People Will Marvel That We Ever Allowed Humans To Drive What a load of rubbish. There are literally tens of thousands of miles of roads in remote areas that are not precisely mapped by Google where human control of vehicles is and will be the only way that they...

All of this means that BART's rolling stock just about has to be specially built--and thus is more expensive. I believe most of its equipment has been in use from the start (though occasionally remodeled/upgraded).

With numbers like that, I'd expect there to be a few hookers in the vicinity--not that I'd expect anyone here to avail themselves of their services, of course. I take it nobody got "bustituted" to make the connection instead?

I know that BART equipment, which operates on what is sometimes called Indian gauge, i.e., 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) wide track, would not be immediately compatible with most other subway/rapid transit/metro systems in the U.S., including the S.F. Muni.

Norfolk Southern runs Hispeed trains? :D

The writer(s) would probably say, "That's why we need to scrap it."

I've noticed it more on light rail (MAX and S.F. Muni Metro) than on BART (which uses Indian gauge; perhaps that makes the difference).

Manor sleeping car: Chateau sleeping car: Park car: All of these and more at Toronto-Vancouver train - Classes and train cars =>Classes and train cars => Sleeper Plus class (you may be able to skip a few of the tab-links on the page that VIA seems to enjoy making you wade through).

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Video of a northbound UP stack train successfully negotiating the curve:

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They want to have several lines up-and-running by 2018, just five years from now? In the U.S., mentioning a brand-new high-speed rail line today might mean the first environmental impact statement would be drafted by 2018.

IOW, while Seattle's studying, Portland's building. Seattle will probably never catch up with Portland as far as rail-based public transit is concerned.